Research in San Francisco
Science Explorer records 356 research institutions in San Francisco, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of California, San Francisco, University of San Francisco and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
- Research institutions
- 356 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 216k ◆ 1% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 10M 46.6 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 21.1% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.
Which research institutions are in San Francisco?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of California, San FranciscoUniversity | 136,597 | #42 | |
| 2 | San Francisco State UniversityUniversity | 11,268 | #2,746 | |
| 3 | University of San FranciscoUniversity | 11,238 | #489 | |
| 4 | Institute on AgingNonprofit | 3,176 | #2,573 | |
| 5 | Golden Gate UniversityUniversity | 2,892 | #10,472 | |
| 6 | Bechtel (United States)Company | 2,644 | #11,544 | |
| 7 | University of California Hastings College of the LawUniversity | 2,270 | #19,265 | |
| 8 | Cal HumanitiesNonprofit | 1,794 | #6,992 | |
| 9 | Gladstone InstitutesNonprofit | 1,614 | #1,594 | |
| 10 | California Academy of SciencesArchive | 1,550 | #12,936 | |
| 11 | Public Policy Institute of CaliforniaNonprofit | 1,476 | #8,044 | |
| 12 | Letterman Army Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,323 | #17,215 all time | |
| 13 | Pacific EnvironmentInstitution | 1,254 | #11,736 | |
| 14 | Bay InstituteNonprofit | 1,181 | #4,022 | |
| 15 | San Francisco Department of Public HealthHospital / health system | 1,128 | #9,179 | |
| 16 | California Institute for Regenerative MedicineGovernment institution | 1,103 | #1,185 | |
| 17 | San Francisco FoundationNonprofit | 1,074 | #6,337 | |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Bank of San FranciscoInstitution | 1,003 | #17,595 | |
| 19 | QB3Nonprofit | 963 | #1,301 | |
| 20 | WestedNonprofit | 905 | #10,043 | |
| 21 | Saybrook UniversityUniversity | 878 | #18,038 | |
| 22 | California Institute of Integral StudiesUniversity | 816 | #12,215 | |
| 23 | Wells Fargo (United States)Company | 775 | #10,230 | |
| 24 | San Francisco AIDS FoundationNonprofit | 769 | #5,089 all time | |
| 25 | City College of San FranciscoUniversity | 748 | #20,769 | |
| 26 | Tumori FoundationNonprofit | 736 | #21,043 all time | |
| 27 | Mechanics' InstituteInstitution | 708 | #8,284 all time | |
| 28 | Autodesk (United States)Company | 693 | #8,886 | |
| 29 | Global Brain Health InstituteNonprofit | 681 | #4,237 | |
| 30 | Jewish HomeInstitution | 585 | #9,717 all time | |
| 31 | Evotec (United States)Company | 566 | #9,804 | |
| 32 | Dignity HealthHospital / health system | 558 | #12,295 | |
| 33 | Salesforce (United States)Company | 555 | #6,927 | |
| 34 | St. Mary's Medical CenterHospital / health system | 548 | #15,886 all time | |
| 35 | McKesson (United States)Company | 544 | #16,272 | |
| 36 | Eos Neuroscience (United States)Company | 521 | #8,650 | |
| 37 | Pacific Research InstituteInstitution | 402 | #14,377 | |
| 38 | California Public Utilities CommissionGovernment institution | 399 | #18,750 all time | |
| 39 | Parker Institute for Cancer ImmunotherapyResearch facility | 385 | #1,387 | |
| 40 | ExploratoriumArchive | 381 | #14,996 all time | |
| 41 | Benchmark Research (United States)Company | 377 | #14,138 | |
| 42 | St. Joseph's HospitalHospital / health system | 368 | #20,164 all time | |
| 43 | Kaiser Family FoundationNonprofit | 338 | #10,518 all time | |
| 44 | Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern CaliforniaResearch facility | 334 | #25,177 all time | |
| 45 | IDEO (United States)Company | 333 | #14,481 all time | |
| 46 | Center for Policy AnalysisNonprofit | 332 | #9,897 all time | |
| 47 | Glaucoma Research FoundationNonprofit | 324 | #19,426 all time | |
| 48 | Levi Strauss (United States)Company | 319 | #18,382 all time | |
| 49 | Hinge HealthHospital / health system | 315 | #16,677 | |
| 50 | Catholic CharitiesNonprofit | 310 | #23,997 all time | |
| 51 | OpenAI (United States)Company | 303 | #15,789 | |
| 52 | Blood Systems Research InstituteNonprofit | 300 | #11,808 all time | |
| 53 | Community InitiativesNonprofit | 296 | #16,330 | |
| 54 | Dolby (United States)Company | 296 | #20,822 | |
| 55 | San Francisco Center for PsychoanalysisNonprofit | 288 | #19,827 all time | |
| 56 | International Neuromodulation SocietyNonprofit | 284 | #19,877 | |
| 57 | San Francisco Unified School DistrictUniversity | 281 | #14,985 | |
| 58 | A.P. Giannini FoundationInstitution | 281 | #14,350 all time | |
| 59 | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitGovernment institution | 276 | #31,804 all time | |
| 60 | Public Library of ScienceArchive | 276 | #20,123 all time |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does San Francisco work in?
In 2022-now, 49% of research in San Francisco is in Health Sciences, 21% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (43%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%), Social Sciences (9%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Health Sciences.
Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Sciences15k49.0%
- Medicine13k43.1%
- Health Professions1,5405.0%
- Nursing1470.5%
- Dentistry1280.4%
- Veterinary270.1%
- Social Sciences6,36620.6%
- Social Sciences2,7839.0%
- Psychology1,6795.4%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance6272.0%
- Arts and Humanities5321.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting5081.6%
- Decision Sciences2360.8%
- Life Sciences5,38317.4%
- Physical Sciences4,02213.0%
- Computer Science1,2294.0%
- Engineering1,0783.5%
- Environmental Science6752.2%
- Physics and Astronomy3371.1%
- Mathematics2070.7%
- Materials Science1470.5%
- Chemistry1410.5%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1370.4%
- Energy540.2%
- Chemical Engineering150.0%
What is San Francisco strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in San Francisco is most concentrated in Transplantation, Family Practice and Virology (4.3× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 50.9 works4.3×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 50.6 works4.0×
- VirologySubfield · 61.6 works4.0×
- AgingSubfield · 24.3 works3.8×
- Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologySubfield · 31.0 works3.6×
- Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 450.9 works3.4×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 211.2 works3.3×
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 2.4×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Immunology and Microbiology2.38×638 works
- Medicine2.28×12k works
- Neuroscience2.14×925 works
- Health Professions1.94×1,362 works
- Psychology1.81×1,466 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.78×2,523 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.19×112 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.00×569 works
- Nursing0.99×129 works
- Dentistry0.85×110 works
- Decision Sciences0.74×191 works
- Social Sciences0.68×2,297 works
- Veterinary0.59×22 works
- Arts and Humanities0.59×453 works
- Mathematics0.53×166 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.52×449 works
- Computer Science0.50×1,023 works
- Environmental Science0.43×571 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.40×237 works
- Chemistry0.30×125 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.29×366 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.26×110 works
- Engineering0.23×935 works
- Energy0.20×48 works
- Chemical Engineering0.13×12 works
- Materials Science0.12×112 works
Which keywords describe research in San Francisco?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Immunotherapy, Quality of Life, Public Health, Mental Health, Aging and Risk Factors.
- Mortality Rates
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Cognitive Training
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Neuroinflammation
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Neurodegeneration
- Primary Care
- Genetic Mutations
- Anxiety
- Mortality
- Neurological Disorders
- Diagnosis
- Aging
- Biomarkers
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Treatment
- Oxidative Stress
- Public Health
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Mental Health
- Risk Factors
- Immunotherapy
- Cancer
- Depression
- Clinical Trials
- Chemotherapy
- Genetics
- Global Burden
- Neuroimaging
- Radiotherapy
- Health Disparities
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Mortality Risk
- Cognitive Decline
- Caregiver Burden
- Dementia
- Vascular Risk Factors
Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology2,448▲ 1.99×139 topics
- Inflammation1,128▲ 1.71×83 topics
- Quality of Life918▲ 2.1×60 topics
- Public Health853▲ 1.89×71 topics
- Mental Health846▲ 1.91×47 topics
- Oxidative Stress769▲ 1.51×62 topics
- Risk Factors748▲ 2.2×37 topics
- Treatment731▲ 1.94×52 topics
- Immunotherapy727▲ 3.2×19 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease670▲ 1.90×39 topics
- Cancer642▲ 1.54×59 topics
- Biomarkers616▲ 2.9×18 topics
- Depression588▲ 2.2×26 topics
- Aging586▲ 3.5×19 topics
- Clinical Trials509▲ 2.5×19 topics
- Diagnosis507▲ 1.76×41 topics
- Chemotherapy474▲ 2.2×25 topics
- Neurological Disorders452▲ 2.6×20 topics
- Genetics418▲ 1.91×26 topics
- Mortality416▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Global Burden386▲ 2.3×12 topics
- Anxiety382▲ 2.6×12 topics
- Neuroimaging375▲ 4.4×11 topics
- Genetic Mutations372▲ 2.8×23 topics
- Radiotherapy371▲ 3.0×13 topics
- Primary Care363▲ 3.2×15 topics
- Health Disparities362▲ 4.5×9 topics
- Neurodegeneration355▲ 3.7×11 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy321▲ 6.4×6 topics
- Alzheimer's Disease316▲ 3.7×9 topics
- Mortality Risk306▲ 4.1×6 topics
- Neuroinflammation301▲ 3.4×6 topics
- Cognitive Decline251▲ 6.7×2 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy247▲ 5.2×3 topics
- Caregiver Burden246▲ 7.0×3 topics
- Cognitive Training239▲ 8.3×2 topics
- Dementia232▲ 7.9×2 topics
- Mild Cognitive Impairment230▲ 8.7×1 topic
- Vascular Risk Factors230▲ 8.7×1 topic
- Mortality Rates210▲ 7.2×2 topics
What research is done in San Francisco?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 211 works
- 2 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 145 works
- 3 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 124 works
- 4 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 112 works
- 5 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 104 works
- 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 103 works
- 7 Alzheimer's disease research and treatments Physiology 103 works
- 8 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 102 works
- 9 Diversity and Career in Medicine Gender Studies 90 works
- 10 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 87 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 32.7% in 2008.
Questions people ask
What are the best universities in San Francisco for research?
Science Explorer records 356 research institutions in San Francisco, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of California, San Francisco, University of San Francisco and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
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